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Journal investigating apparent data mismatch in climate study
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (373+ words) A leading environmental economics journal is looking into claims that a 2025 study linking national innovation to lower carbon emissions contains data that does not match its source, after an expert in the field requested the paper be retracted. These allegations…...
Publisher investigating two more papers on glyphosate safety over ghostwriting claims – Retraction Watch
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (833+ words) Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. Tayor & Francis is investigating two papers about the weed killer Roundup following claims the articles were ghostwritten by the company that developed the…...
Science flags paper that found AI chatbots help debunk conspiracy theories
3+ mon, 2+ day ago (445+ words) Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. Science has issued an expression of concern for a highly publicized study looking into whether conversations with AI chatbots could convince conspiracy theorists…...
New system for flagging retracted papers finds scores of them in Cochrane reviews
3+ mon, 3+ day ago (416+ words) Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. Cochrane has implemented a new system for checking whether any of its thousands of published reviews include retracted studies in their analyses, the…...
Weekend reads: arXiv to ban researchers with hallucinated references; U.S. restrictions on foreign coauthors; retracted papers by Max Planck
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (158+ words) Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch…...
‘Comically bad’ datasets used to train clinical models for stroke and diabetes
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (665+ words) Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. This particular dataset, collected in a folder titled “droopy” and hosted on an open-source repository called Kaggle, underpins a paper published in Scientific…...
Nine years after journalist raised concerns, BMJ Group journal retracts stent paper – Retraction Watch
3+ mon, 4+ week ago (592+ words) Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. A BMJ Group journal has retracted a paper nearly nine years after a journalist raised concerns about undisclosed conflicts of interest and the…...
Elsevier retracts the least and reinstates the most, new analysis finds
4+ mon, 2+ day ago (768+ words) Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. While Elsevier outcompetes other publishers in terms of sheer volume, it also has the lowest retraction rate and highest rate of reinstating articles…...
Russian news outlets hailed a cancer breakthrough, but the retraction went unnoticed
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (631+ words) Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. But four years later, Journal of Materials Chemistry B, the journal that had published the paper, retracted it. But in statements to Retraction…...
NEJM retracts case study for AI-manipulated imagery
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (341+ words) Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. The New England Journal of Medicine has retracted a clinical image with a picture the authors admit was manipulated with artificial intelligence. The…...